United States Second Circuit

Petition for review challenging denial of cancellation of removal is dismissed as petitioner failed to appeal the IJ's order to the BIA and, thus his administrative remedies are unexhausted. The exhaustion requirement is statutory and jurisdictional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/27/2007
• Published 11/27/2007

Judges

• DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:, Before:  JACOBS, Chief Judge, B.D. PARKER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bozena Ziedalski, New York, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. JocelynLopez Wright, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice (Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General and Carol Federighi, Senior Litigation Counsel, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Respondents.